On December 28, 1912, America’s first big city transit line owned by the people themselves opened. In San Francisco, on Geary Street. The San Francisco Municipal Railway broke the pattern of transit systems owned by private companies.
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Happy Holidays!
“The Mayoral Limo”
Cable Car Holiday Tradition
We’ve been loving the decorated cable cars on the Powell and California lines this holiday season (see photo below). The idea of decorated cable cars actually goes back at least 65 years to the last desperate years of the California Street Cable Railway Company.
Now THAT’S a Storm!
STORMAGEDDON! STORMPOCYLPSE!
Dressed for the Season
‘Tis the Season
Special Sale at Our Museum
Gratitude: Big Picture and Closeup
Thanks for the Green!
One hundred Thanksgivings ago, Muni was laying streetcar track at the spot you see here, and finishing up the Stockton Tunnel in the background, all to create the original F-line, the F-Stockton, which was initially built to carry crowds to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
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